The Visionary Sound Company

 
The new ClipCop version 3.2.

The ClipCop is basically an extremely low distortion sine wave oscillator tuned to 440Hz housed in the same snappy little hand held box as a piezo horn.  The balanced +4dBu output of the oscillator is fed into the sound system being lined-up, and the piezo horn is connected at various points in the system so as to monitor the signal.  

The piezo horn does not reproduce 440Hz very well, but it does reproduce very loudly the first odd harmonic and all the other odd harmonics above it.  When the gain of any part of the system is increased and starts to clip the 440Hz test signal, the ClipCop goes from being virtually silent to reproducing a horrible raspy sound.  This audible indication of the onset of clipping is even more sensitive than can be achieved using an oscilloscope.  

The ClipCop has been designed to run off of nearly dead 9Volt batteries so as to take advantage of all those part used wireless mic and stomp box batteries that sound professionals seem to amass in profusion.  There is an 'On/Off' switch with an associated green LED indicating the unit is on.  There is also a 'Test' switch which momentarily connects the oscillator to the piezo horn so that the purity of the sine wave can be audibly confirmed. The output of the oscillator is via balanced male XLR, and the input of the piezo horn is via female XLR (with the horn connected across pins 2 & 3) with an associated male XLR as a 'through' connection .  This allows the the piezo horn to be inserted into a system so as to provide indication under 'real world' system loading.

How to own a ClipCop

Pricing

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